Glyphs

About

Glyphs is a font editor for the Mac, presented on its website as the leading tool of its kind. The site describes it as a way to draw quickly, manage efficiently, and release fonts with confidence, and it is used for creating type, icons, lettering, logos, and pictograms. Testimonials on the site praise its features for both newcomers and experienced type designers, and mention its usefulness for Arabic type, monoline designs, and learning type design.

Glyphs 4 introduces new drawing and organization tools. Pen points allow variable-width strokes that adapt to a path's direction, and COLRv1 support enables colors, blends, and gradients. Visual kerning groups let users drag glyphs onto a shelf to build and organize kerning sets. A new left sidebar, stroke cap controls, a Slanter filter for obliques, head components for icon strokes, a redesigned scripting window, a master selector, a live text preview, and star nodes for smooth curve transitions round out the update. The site also notes that the app can be extended with plug-ins and scripts.